Using more than a dozen historical corsets on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Gibson found that the average adult woman's waist size was 56 cm -- or 22 inches -- in circumference.

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The Symington Collection of Antique Corsets will be exhibited. Ms Bremble said: "The Victorian corsets wouldn’t fit a modern body because the Victorians were corseted from a very early age and ...